Archive for September, 2009
Wyoming Bank Sues Google, Is Gmail To Blame?
A small Wyoming bank made national headlines when it filed a lawsuit against Google after an employee inadvertently sent sensitive customer data to the wrong user’s Gmail account. This incident reaffirms that a company doesn’t need to be the target of a massive plot by hackers to suffer a costly and damaging data breach.
Lexington, MA – September 21, 2009 – Ipswitch, Inc. File Transfer division, a developer of comprehensive secure and managed file transfer solutions, has announced it’s placement as a “Leader” in the “Magic Quadrant for Managed File Transfer” report authored by Gartner Inc’s Research Director, L. Frank Kenney.
In its report, Gartner states, “Companies should consider managed file transfer (MFT) suite vendors that meet short-term tactical and long-term strategic needs. It’s all too easy to react too quickly and procure and deploy technology that supports only one protocol or security standard. It’s much more prudent to deploy a product that can be easily expanded and upgraded to handle multiple protocols and multiple standards in a governed way that is fully auditable.” Continue Reading
